During my last visit in Singapore in May 2018 I met a highly motivated team, building a solid crypto-startup, called Bountie, around the gaming industry in Asia. Bountie is a platform that will pay gamers to play computer games, through a token economy and blockchain. My Blockchain Background My name is Svetlin Nakov, from Bulgaria.

I had a talk at a blockchain conference regarding the upcoming public “Decentralized Cloud” systems, which will combine the best of the public cloud platforms (like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, …) with the blockchain and peer-to-peer networks (Ethereum, IPFS, EOS, TRON, NEM, NEO, Storj, Sia, …). Why? Because the trend towards decentralized organizations (DAO)

Recently I had a talk about the basics of cryptography for blockchain developers at the Bulgarian Web Summit 2018. I am happy to succeed to introduce the most important concepts of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), key derivation and encryption (SCrypt, AES and HMAC), digital signatures (ECDSA, sign / verify) and crypto-wallets (HD wallets, mnemonics

I am happy to announce that I will teach the first 6-week long intensive Blockchain Dev Camp, which will be held in Sofia in the Software University from 29 Jan 2018. To enroll, visit the course official site: Blockchain Dev Camp – Sofia (Feb 2018) The developer camp will teach the blockchain technologies from the developer perspective

Yesterday I had a talk on the JS.talks() conference in Sofia on “Creating DApps with Ethereum“. I demonstrated how to create a “Document Registry” ADpp on the Ethereum blockchain network, using a smart contract coded in Solidity and connecting to the Ethereum network through the Web browser from JavaScript app using MetaMask and its Injected

Recently I had a talk about the Blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies and their application to the real world economy. Watch my blockchain talk as video: About this Blockchain Talk Blockchain is a decentralized ledger (distributed database with no owner) running the infrastructure for digital cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It this talk the speaker will explain

Recently, I created a detailed Spring MVC tutorial for my students at the Software University (SoftUni), as part of their training course “Software Technologies”, so I want to share it with anyone interested to learn how to integrate Java, Spring Framework, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring services, repositories, controllers, models, Thymeleaf views, Spring form validation,

I had a talk about Map-Reduce and Apache Hadoop at the Spring Conference of the Bulgarian Oracle User Group (BGOUG) – Borovets, June 2016. I post the demo source code, slides and video here. Map-Reduce and Apache Hadoop – Video Map-Reduce and Apache Hadoop – Slides Map-Reduce and Apache Hadoop – Source Code Map-Reduce-Hadoop-Demos.zip